Lent 13

17While Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside by themselves, and said to them on the way, 18â€œSee, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death; 19then they will hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified; and on the third day he will be raised.â€20Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, and kneeling before him, she asked a favor of him. 21And he said to her, â€œWhat do you want?â€ She said to him, â€œDeclare that these two sons of mine will sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your kingdom.â€ 22But Jesus answered, â€œYou do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink?â€ They said to him, â€œWe are able.â€ 23He said to them, â€œYou will indeed drink my cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left, this is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.â€ 24When the ten heard it, they were angry with the two brothers. 25But Jesus called them to him and said, â€œYou know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them. 26It will not be so among you; but whoever wishes to be great among you must be your servant, 27and whoever wishes to be first among you must be your slave; 28just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.â€ (Matthew 20.17-28)